GEO Requires More Than SEO: The Technical Distinction Nobody Is Making

GEO is mostly SEO. But mostly is not all of it. The conversation keeps collapsing into two useless camps. Camp one says GEO is just repackaged SEO with a shinier invoice. Camp two says SEO is dead. Both are wrong. Here's the technical case for why. Eligibility vs. Selection: The Distinction Nobody Is Making Two completely separate problems are being treated as one. Eligibility is whether an AI system can reach your content at all. Crawled, indexed, snippet-eligible. Google explicitly documents that to be considered for AI Overviews, a page must be indexed and eligible to show a snippet.